Jeanine M. BOYD, F/K/A Jeanine Boyd Robinson, Appellant, v. Bruce G. ROBINSON, Appellee

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

By order of a state court in a marriage-dissolution proceeding, Bruce Robinson acquired a $7,000 lien on the homestead he shared with his former wife, Jeanine Boyd. This appeal raises the question whether this lien is avoidable under 11 U.S.C. § 522(f)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code. We affirm the District Court’s 1 holding that the lien was not avoidable under this section of the code, 31 B.R. 591. We hold that the lien did not attach to any “interest of the debtor in property,” as that phrase is used in Section 522(f).

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Prior to her marriage to Robinson in 1970, Boyd was the…